The public estrangement of Gosar from his brothers and sisters first became publicly known a year ago, when they expressed their dismay for Gosar's political views in a letter to the "Kingman Daily Miner."

But the family's latest intervention in Gosar's political career reveals the depths of the gap between one of the most conservative members of Congress and the people who have known him all of his life.

Gosar did not respond to an "Arizona Republic" request for comment late Friday.

The Gosar clan, all of whom live outside Arizona, first went public with their differences over their brother's views after he suggested that liberal donor George Soros may have been a Nazi collaborator as a youth in an interview with "Vice News" for HBO.

Since then, the family has peppered the four-term congressman with insults on social media.

Gosar, who grew up in western Wyoming, represents the 4th Congressional District, the state's most Republican-leaning. It spans northwest Arizona, from the Nevada border down to Yuma and sweeps across the rural outskirts of the East Valley.

In interviews with "The Republic," several of his siblings acknowledged they were no longer close to their brother because of the intensity of their disagreement with his publicly stated views.

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